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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease. (more)

How Not to Calm People Down: Governments at all levels in the U.S. are trying to reassure Americans that they have nothing to fear from the plume of radiation heading east from Japan across the Pacfic. I assume the officials and experts are right about this. But they have a lot to learn when it comes to easing modern public health fears. Perhaps I can help them. You’ve heard of “first responders.” I am a “first panicker.”   They’re talkin’ to me. Or trying to. Here are five rules that might help them do a better job. (more)

Is art imitating life again for Miley Cyrus? (more)

1.) Deficit commission gets no respect during SOTU address — “Wait for the deficit commission.” That’s what the White House told Reuters’ James Pethokoukis whenever he asked about Pres. Obama’s strategy for dealing with America’s debt problem. “Obama’s panel has come and gone,” Pethokoukis wrote after the SOTU address. “And in his speech last night, he failed to explicitly endorse any of its budget-cutting recommendations.” After 10 months of deliberation and town halls across the country to the tune of $500,000, and a contentious fight over which commission faction’s proposal was the best proposal, Obama has essentially scrapped the whole thing. “I don’t agree with all their proposals, but they made important progress,” Obama said last night. “To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations.” Never mind that Obama has endorsed exactly zero of the commission’s ideas, but as Pethokoukis points out: “Did Obama not check his in-box? His bipartisan commission gave him a Social Security fix.” (more)

Reality show couple Bill and Giuliana Rancic are shopping for new digs in Los Angeles, and nearly found an unlikely neighbor in Lindsay Lohan, RadarOnline.com has learned. (more)

Talk about a surprise guest. (more)

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — Police are searching for a Pennsylvania couple after a man’s dismembered body was discovered inside a backpack in a hotel near downtown Los Angeles. (more)

What a difference a year makes for Tiger Woods. (more)

Autumn sneaks up on you, where I grew up. The weather doesn’t get that much colder as the seasons turn and leaves fall. Oak leaves are not as ubiquitous as the maple or sycamore. In fact it’s the ghostly limbs of the oak as thick as a grown man’s thigh twisting and branching out that you notice. The cedars, junipers, and evergreens, popular in landscaping along the coasts of California, are the same hue of jade in October as they are in April. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — He was a small man who dreamed big, hit the highest heights and failed like few others. (more)

This YouTube video reminded me that I was the person who introduced Keith Olbermann to America. (more)

This summer, programmers at Go Country 105 radio in Los Angeles unveiled a new single called “Country Strong” and asked listeners to guess who was the twangy alto belting out lines about how she’s “hard to break, like the ground I grew up on.” (more)

Note to contestants hoping to impress American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez: Don’t sing her songs. (more)

Do yourself a favor and don’t even bother going to the movies this November. Read more about why pretty much every movie coming out this month will suck below. (more)

LOS ANGELES — Late last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was still coming to terms with that most deeply confounding of European filmmakers, Jean-Luc Godard. (more)

In a city that seems to have everything, it’s incredible to think Los Angeles has been lacking a National Football League franchise for the past 15 years. (more)

This election season, the conservative women’s group, The Kitchen Cabinet, has announced that it will have representatives in all fifty states monitoring the elections Tuesday to ensure a fair process. (more)

The Internet revolutionized political fundraising, but when it comes to spending those dollars, media strategists are voting old school. (more)

A cameraman sued Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday, claiming his civil rights were violated when he was roughed up by a film crew shooting the comedian in character as ‘Bruno’ during a gay marriage rally. (more)

Steve Goldstein knows where all the famous bodies are buried. (more)